Tijuana Dreaming

Life and Art at the Global Border

By: Josh Kun (Editor)

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Paperback | 17 September 2012

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Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuana's unique infrastructural, demographic, and environmental challenges. They delve into its musical countercultures, architectural ruins, cinema, and emergence as a hot spot on the international art scene. One contributor examines fictional representations of Tijuana's past as a Prohibition-era "city of sin" for U.S. pleasure seekers. Another reflects on the city's recent struggles with kidnappings and drug violence. In an interview, Nestor Garcia Canclini revisits ideas that he advanced in Culturas hibridas (1990), his watershed book about Latin America and cultural hybridity. Taken together, the selections present a kaleidoscopic portrait of a major border city in the age of globalization.

Contributors. Tito Alegria, Humberto Felix Berumen, Roberto Castillo Udiarte, Iain Chambers, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Teddy Cruz, Ejival, Tarek Elhaik, Guillermo Fadanelli, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Ingrid Hernandez, Jennifer Insley-Pruitt, Kathryn Kopinak, Josh Kun, Jesse Lerner, Fiamma Montezemolo, Rene Peralta, Rafa Saavedra, Lucia Sanroman, Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez, Heriberto Yepez

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"Tijuana Dreaming stages an international dialogue about issues of overwhelming importance. It will enable supremely talented Spanish-language writers to reach Anglophone audiences, compel scholars to rethink why culture matters now, and lead readers around the world to consider the responsibilities and obligations that we incur in the face of rapidly changing configurations of capital, culture, violence, and the nation state." George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place "This is an exciting and timely collection of cultural criticism and creative work. The selections are inspired, alert to a wide spectrum of practices and debates. Personal narratives, urban development, art, literature, photography, and architecture are just some of the matters covered in this rich and thought-provoking conversation, and the foreword by Iain Chambers provides the perfect framing device, linking Tijuana to global studies and critical inquiry." Roberto Tejada, author of National Camera: Photography and Mexico's Image Environment

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword: A Line in the Sand	p. ix
Introduction: The Factory of Dreams	p. 1
Welcome Tu Tijuana	p. 21
Snapshots from and about a City Named Tijuana	p. 25
Tijuanologies: An Urban Essay	p. 47
Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models	p. 71
(Conversation with) Néstor García Canclini, on How Tijuana Ceased to Be the Laboratory of Postmoderinity	p. 94
Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución Is an Avenue	p. 117
Illicit Acts of Urbanism	p. 136
The Transborder Metropolis in Question: The Case of Tijuana and San Diego	p. 148
Practices of Encroachment: Urban Waste Moves Southbound; Illegal Zoning Seeps into North	p. 175
Community of Struggle: Gender, Violence, and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border	p. 190
La Canción de Tijuana/The Song of Tijuana	p. 212
Todos somos ciudadanos?: Artistic Production and Agency in Tijuana	p. 219
Bioethnography of an Artist: Ingrid Hernández	p. 240
Borderline Archaeology	p. 264
Redefining Sodom: A Latter-Day Vision of Tijuana	p. 277
Crossfader Playlist	p. 300
Counterculture, Rockers, Punks, New Romantics, and Mods in Tijuana	p. 329
Borderline Ghosts: From Touch of Evil to Maquiliapolis: City of Factories	p. 339
The Kidnapped City	p. 355
The Line	p. 370
Contributors	p. 375
Index	p. 381
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